This is the Blog site for QISMA. She is a 59 foot narrowboat launched in July 2010 as a liveaboard, for Jan, Alistair and Little Josh. After almost six years cruising the canals and rivers of England and Wales we started a new adventure. The boat was taken to Ireland where we plan to stay for...............

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Tom Cruise is NOT Jack Reacher

Luck was with us over the weekend. I let our friends Jay and Michael know we'd arrived and would soon have the car. Turned out they were going to be in Cambridgeshire over the weekend. So came for lunch on Sunday - the first barbecued leg of lamb for 2014! We hadn't seen them since their wedding last October. They had tried to find us in Newbury as the passed through earlier this years but we were in Wales.

Jay had brought limes so .......

LJ just wanted to go swimming ..... Will one of you take me?

We saw a swan attack a rower in a small inflatable who got too near his nest - the eggs still not hatched. Pretty scary.

Into Ely on Monday ready for me to hit the road on Tuesday. Concerts to go to people to see!! Michael, who is from US couldn't quite believe I was seeing Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell? Not bad for an old bird.

Sadly, only saw Mum and Dad this time.

Early evening Monday we caught up with Tweet and Bloggers Fen moorers and owners of Mr Perkins cat Caity and Colin from @Nb_narrowescape and shared a bottle of wine. Glad they made it down in time from their boat blacking at Earith. Turns out, amongst other things, we are all in agreement Tom Cruise is not Jack Reacher.